Asuka Karasawa, who lost consciousness, seemed to have had a very deep dream.
In the dream, the tip of her nose was filled with the Buddhist fragrance that she seemed to have been accustomed to for a long time. She was wearing a black girl's high school uniform, sitting on her knees in an antique room with dull eyes.
"Winter! Winter! Winter!"
In her ears, the sound of tapping wooden fish came from outside the room. Along with the soothing burning Buddhist incense, she finally seemed to have regained her consciousness, but she was still sitting on her knees in a daze.
Next to the sliding door of the wooden paper lake, there was a small table in front of her. Next to the table lay her empty schoolbag that she had opened.
Homework assigned by the teacher is scattered on the wooden table. If they were other high school girls, they would definitely hang out in the club and finish their homework while hanging out. But Asuka Karasawa has not joined any club. If
If there were no other accidents, she would return to her home, a temple called "Senjuji Temple" on the outskirts of Kyoto, as soon as school was over in the afternoon.
"Winter! Winter! Winter!"
Asuka Karasawa sat there blankly, the sound of wooden fish beside her ears kept beating with a tone that seemed to be eternal, and... kept beating, neither fast nor slow.
Dad...are you doing something?
"This is what I heard: For a time, the Buddha only had a tree in the lonely garden in Savatthi State..."
"At that time, Elder Subhuti was among the crowd..."
"..."
From outside the closed sliding door next to Asuka Karasawa, a sound of Buddhist scriptures chanted loudly by a gentle male voice came from a distance. In the two years since Asuka Karasawa returned to Kyoto from her mother in Tokyo,
She hears her father reciting Buddhist scriptures and banging wooden fish every day. This is indeed a troublesome thing for Karasawa Asuka who has lived with her mother since she was a child.
I... don't seem to be doing my homework...
What are you doing?
In the dream, she felt that her consciousness was extremely heavy, and even the movement of looking down at the wooden table was frighteningly slow. It was not until several seconds later that she saw the homework scattered on the wooden table. On top of the homework, there were
There was a Buddhist scripture spread out, and all the words on it were copied in Japanese by his father. Asuka Karasawa had a headache just reading it.
Her academic performance is very poor, and her personality is very withdrawn, she basically has no friends...
What are you doing?
She doesn't seem to be...reading Buddhist scriptures...
Why are you reading Buddhist scriptures?
These are the things I hate the most. Every time I hear them, I find them annoying. It’s almost the 21st century, but I still chant sutras like an old antique and become a monk...
It's so strange.
So, what are you doing?
"Winter! Winter! Winter!"
Outside the door, the continuous sound of wooden fish was still ringing. Karasawa Asuka's dull consciousness slowly raised her head from here, and she saw that not far in front of her, there was a small table on the tatami in front of her.
A small TV, the animation "Neon Genesis Evangelion" produced by TV Tokyo is playing on the TV...
"I will repay the hurt self-esteem 10 times!"
Looking at the beautiful appearance of the heroine wearing a red tight-fitting combat uniform on TV, and hearing her iconic words clearly in her ears, Karasawa Asuka unconsciously came back to her senses.
The heroine's name seems to be exactly the same as mine...
Yes, I seem to be watching animation.
I'm watching animation...
"Winter! Winter! Winter!"
"The Buddha said: "Good, good! Subhuti! As you said, the Tathagata is good at protecting and caring for all Bodhisattvas, and is good at giving instructions to all Bodhisattvas..."
The sound of wooden fish continued outside the hall, the sliding door of the room was still closed, and the small TV in front of her still kept repeating the scene of the animated protagonist with the same name as her...
Karasawa Asuka tilted her head blankly, still sitting on her knees like a statue, motionless.
...
...
"Well...my head hurts..."
Asuka Karasawa covered her head in discomfort, as if there had been a heavy blow. She rubbed her eyes, and then with difficulty saw a shadow that resembled a lake in front of her.
"Are you awake, little girl?"
"Gelsemium... sir?"
"Well, it seems that you are almost awake. You were hit by the aftermath of the angel Michael forging the gospel relic. Although it hit your head, after all, you are just an ordinary human girl. This is the only misfortune among all the blessings.
.How do you feel now?”
"Huh? I have a little... headache... and I seemed to have had a dream just now."
"Dream?"
"Ah, but it's okay now, thank you. Where is Mr. Fisher?"
Asuka Karasawa's consciousness became clearer and clearer. She rubbed her head and sat up. She found herself lying on the ground in a spacious room, with a whaleman Gelsemium squatting next to her. After hearing her question,
Gelsemium smiled helplessly, pursed her lips in one direction, and said,
"He, he has a stinking face over there..."
Asuka Karasawa looked in the direction indicated by Gelsemium and saw Fisher sitting by the window in the room with a cold expression and his hands folded. His handsome face was bruised and bruised. It seemed that he was also suffering from the aftermath of the previous incident.
suffered serious injuries.
But the strange thing is that Gelsemium doesn't seem to have anything wrong with it.
Asuka Karasawa expressed her doubts to Gelsemium, but Gelsemium just shook her head and explained,
"Originally, he had nothing to do, but who told him to meddle in other people's business and bother the Angel of Hell... Well, I have simply treated your wound. It shouldn't be anything serious. We all can
Waiting for you to wake up."
"Hey? Wait for me?"
"Yes, you are a transferred person, and you are from the same world as that gentleman. We wanted to talk to him just now, but he didn't seem to believe us at all, saying that he would not talk until you wake up.
.”
"That's right...yes, it seems we just saw a Russian."
Asuka Karasawa immediately sat up. Fisher also rubbed the wound on his face and walked over from the window. He said to Asuka Karasawa,
"Angel Michael is still forging things, and it is difficult for us to get close. The guy is watching below, waiting to call him when Michael finishes forging things... The person who transferred is not simple.
A whole room was given to him by Michael, and he seems to be helping Michael forge something. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to talk to us at all, so we can only leave it to you."
Yes, since she was assassinated by Heller, Fisher's name for her has changed from "Angel of Heller" to "that guy". Of course, this is in private, after all, they are still
On the territory of the Holy Domain, not to mention that Heller is a mythical species with a much higher rank than them.
"Ok, no problem!"
Asuka Karasawa nodded immediately after hearing this. She felt a little excited for some reason. She had not been able to help her at all since she traveled to this world. Fortunately, Fisher and Gelsemium had been helping her. Maybe she was just an ordinary person.
She is a high school girl, but she still knows the most basic principle of repaying a favor, and helping them communicate with the transferred person is probably one of the few things she can do.
Moreover, she also wanted to talk to the other party. Although they may have been just two strangers from different countries a few days ago, now that they are here, they may be able to call themselves "fellow earthlings".
.
She took a deep breath, turned around and looked around, but was surprised to find that there were many very complicated angel tools with unknown uses in this room, and on each table, there were many scattered tools.
parts and devices, and this is the second-floor room where the Russian was standing just now.
Gelsemium pointed to the depths of the room towards Karasawa Asuka. Karasawa Asuka walked a long distance in that direction, and then she saw another smaller room in the corner of this spacious room.
There was a bed for sleeping in the room, which seemed to be the Russian's private resting place.
At this time, he was squatting next to the bed, playing with a bunch of strange parts scattered on the ground with one hand. He heard the footsteps of Karasawa Asuka behind him. He didn't look back, but just spoke to Karasawa Asuka in Russian.
said,
"Are you okay? Many creatures here are stronger than human imagination. You are still a [Plain Body], so you are not dead. It's already good. [Mikhail], this is my name, what about you? It's Mitsui
The company is still the daughter of the Konoe Company, and your body is really obvious."
Fisher and Gelsemium didn't understand what the other was talking about at all, so they both looked at Asuka Karasawa, only to find that the little girl's face was even more confused than theirs, as if she didn't understand what the other person was talking about at all.
ghost,
"No...no, that...Mr. Mikhail, my name is Asuka Karasawa, just an ordinary Japanese high school student from Kyoto. You...I don't understand what you are...nearly...
Wei... the body and so on..."
Mikhail's movement of playing with the parts froze for a moment. Only his right hand put down the strange black parts in his hand. Then he turned his head little by little, glanced up and down at Asuka Karasawa in front of him with one eye, and then suddenly spoke
asked,
"You...what year is this year?"
"Huh? This year, this world? I don't know, I just..."
"I'm asking about the time in your world."
"Oh, 1996..."
Mikhail's expression finally showed some obvious astonishment. Then, the corners of his mouth raised a little bit in mockery, and he turned around to fiddle with the parts at his feet.
"So that's it, then you are lucky enough to live in a pretty good era. So, these two are also your friends?"
"It's not a good era..."
After hearing this, Asuka Karasawa's face darkened slightly, and she mumbled something in a low voice, but Mikhail smiled and said,
"It was indeed a good era. At least you haven't experienced a nuclear war, nor have you experienced how those big companies took away everything and used human beings as screws and scraps. Most of the time, the hope in your heart was
Too much despair... Didn't you just ask me what the body is? The body is a pure human being without any mechanical prosthetics implanted, a complete human being like you."
"Why?"
Mikhail glanced at the wall next to him with his single eye. Karasawa, Asuka and Fisher all followed his gaze, and then they discovered that there was a small workpiece on the floor beside his bed.
On the table, there are several strange-looking mechanical arms, mechanical spines and eyeballs...
It seems to correspond to the missing part of the strange man in front of me who calls himself "Mikhail".
Gelsemium squinted and scanned the various prosthetics on the wall, then turned his head and looked around carefully as if seeing the person in front of him for the first time, and then looked at him in surprise.
Fisher next to him said,
"Hiss...Mr. Fisher, this guy is not only missing his hands, but also his eyes and so on. His breathing and metabolic rates are wrong, and other organs in his body have been replaced, most likely his lungs.
.More than that, the proportions of the bones are wrong, unless he was born with a deformity..."
Mikhail turned his head and looked at Asuka Karasawa, a little blue light flashed in his one eye.
“I come from New Russia, which was completely controlled by a weapons company called [Novosibirsk Wind] in 2156. In that era, people had to implant a variety of cheap illegal prosthetics in exchange for valuable job opportunities.
There are even minors who have not yet fully developed. You should be able to imagine the twisted and painful appearance of flesh and blood and prosthetic bodies entangled and repelled by each other when their bodies began to develop."
"Even if the rejection reaction between the human body and the prosthesis is ignored, the implanted prosthetic body will penetrate into the bone marrow like a virus and corrode the human nerves. During each activation and use, its coldness will eventually penetrate
A person's thoughts until they drive them completely crazy..."
"But even so, the reward for most people's hard work is only enough to reach the mouth of the lake. Organ trafficking, drugs, and mergers are all happening every day in a world that is completely valuated by companies, taking away one crop after another.
Life is as easy as cutting grass and pulling out screws. In comparison, does the Japanese society that just suffered the bursting of the economic bubble look like heaven?"
Asuka Karasawa opened her mouth, as if she had once again encountered something beyond the limits of her life experience, leaving her speechless. She just pursed her lips and said "Sorry" sincerely, but
Miha Yin'er shook his head and then said,
"I don't mean to blame you, and you don't need to apologize for this. Anyway, talking about our original world is basically meaningless now. I just didn't expect to meet humans from the same earth here... Although you are too old
A little bit."
Karasawa Asuka would never have thought that the word "ancient" could be used for her, but the gentleman in front of her came from a world more than a hundred years later... Hey, wait a minute.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Mikhail... Is it possible that we are not actually from the same world? It may be a parallel world or something."
"It's possible, but there is no need to explore this. I can understand what you are saying. You also know the economic bubble I just mentioned. Even if there may be other differences, I am too lazy to explore... Also, this
You two..."
Mikhail raised his eyebrows and looked at Fisher and Gelsemium behind Asuka Karasawa, with distrust almost written on his face. Upon seeing this, Asuka Karasawa immediately said,
"These two are Mr. Fisher and Mr. Gelsemium. Although they are from this world, they were caught by angels and are standing with us. Especially Mr. Fisher, he has a great influence on our world.
You must understand that they are all good people."
"...I hope."
Mihain Er withdrew his eyes from sizing up Fisher and the two, and began to lower his head to tinker with the parts in the drum again. Karasawa Asuka was speechless, holding her fingers and thinking for a long time without uttering a word. Fortunately, Fisher next to her first
He took a quick look at the strange equipment outside and asked Mikhail,
"Mr. Mikhail, those things outside are not the work of angels, right?"
"Well, those are the technologies of our world. I don't have the exaggerated power of the angels. I can also use the sun to create objects... But the angel named Michael is very fascinated by technology, any technology, so
Then he left me and asked me to copy some items for him, and then he would let me go. But the things you see outside are not finished products, but simple machine tools for manufacturing. It took me half a year to build these things alone.
Michael never rushed me and only came over to see me occasionally."
After hearing this, Asuka Karasawa glanced at Fisher in surprise and said,
"So... it seems that the Michael angel is not as bad as the other angels say?"
Gelsemium smiled and shook her head, but did not speak. Fisher looked at Karasawa Asuka and explained,
"Bad and good do not apply to angels. Even Sariel who hates Michael will not use the reason of 'bad'. As for why he is so tolerant to Michael and us, it is entirely because
He's arrogant. He doesn't care about us at all, and our life and death itself means nothing to them."
Gelsemium took up Fisher's words and said,
"Unlike the elves who believe in the 'Thousands of Destinies' and the World Tree, angels believe in the creation of the Tao and the Lock of Heaven, which makes them basically indifferent to other living beings."
After hearing Gelsemium's words, Fisher suddenly thought that the Lock of the Sky, World Tree and Fima Baha should all be the children of the little water snake of Lamastia, so why do they have the characteristics of tending to other gods?
The Phoenix's ability to predict the future was first gained from looking at the World Tree, and her tree roots also have the ability to distort space. This has proven that the World Tree is closely related to Anebatos, the god of fate; and
Angels love forging so much, and they seem to be connected with Aoyun, the legendary god who created matter.
Fisher touched his chin and was still thinking, while Asuka Karasawa looked at Mikhail's back with his head lowered and playing with parts with one hand, and suddenly asked uncontrollably,
"Well, Mr. Mikhail. If by then you are free and can leave the angels, what will you do next?"
Maybe this is the question she wants to ask herself. Even though she is now forced into the whirlpool of saving her life, she is actually confused no matter what.
She suddenly went from the familiar world to a dangerous and completely unfamiliar world. It was okay for her not to think about it, but once she thought about it, she thought about the world where she disappeared. There was still her father there. If she was not there, he would
I will definitely be worried too...
Mikhail Yin'er was slightly stunned when he heard this, smiled mockingly at Karasawa Asuka, and said,
"Before the immediate matter has been resolved, and your life is not 100% guaranteed to last, you are already thinking about the future?"
"...Feel sorry."
Karasawa Asuka immediately apologized again, shrinking back like a child who was scolded by an elder.
Mikhail is still playing with the parts on the ground, but if you look closely, you will find that he has been repeating the same meaningless action.
After a long silence, he did not turn his head, but lowered his head and said,
"I'll try to find my way back..."
"...Why?"
Karasawa Asuka did not expect that the other party would suddenly answer her. Hearing the words, he immediately raised his head in surprise, and then said with a smile,
"I thought...after all, Mr. Mikhail said that 2156 was very, very bad. I thought you didn't want to go back."
"Oh, I actually don't want to...but you know, there are still people who are worried about me waiting for me there, and there are some promises I made that I haven't fulfilled, so if I have the chance, I might still go back
of."
Fisher looked at Mikhail's back and suddenly felt that this feeling was a bit familiar.
He seemed to have seen similar words in Caleb Uzi's Soul Completion Manual.
This is not sarcastic, because if you think about it from his perspective, if Fisher suddenly appeared in another world and thought that there were still people waiting for him here and thinking about him, he would probably want to come back here.
"Pap-pap-pap-pap!"
In this extremely quiet atmosphere of reminiscing, a burst of crisp applause suddenly sounded from behind them, scaring Karasawa Asuka to the point where she almost jumped up. Gelsemium raised an eyebrow and Mikhail looked back, Fisher
As soon as I turned around, my face was covered with black lines.
Behind them, the beautiful angel with short curly blond hair, whose whole body shimmered with light, was wiping the moisture from the corners of her eyes with great emotion, wiping and applauding, and choked with sobs,
"Well said, I am so touched... The guests from a foreign land wish to return home, and this warm feeling of everyone thinking together is really unbearable to interrupt... I am so touched by everyone,
Don’t worry, I will definitely help you to the end.”
"...when did you come?"
Everyone was speechless looking at the tearful Heller in front of them. Fisher was the first to speak and asked Heller.
As soon as she heard Fisher's question, Heller's crying immediately disappeared, and her beautiful face was instantly covered by that familiar smile. She nodded her chin and said with a smile,
"Oh, this is when you first started talking... It's okay, it's not a shameful thing, and I won't tell anyone else. Maybe I can give you some friendly suggestions for your goals. If you don't
If you mind. In this way, you get to know each other, and I also witness such interesting things. Isn’t this a win-win situation?"
Fisher sighed, looked at Heller and said,
"So, why did you come up here?"
"Ah, this..."
Heller's smile faded little by little. She pointed outside, in the direction of downstairs, looked at Fisher and said,
"Master Michael is finally free now. Next, he will activate the solar ring. At that time, you will not be able to stay for the entire fifth day, so he wants to see you now, Fisher."